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Lamas, further account of the poison of, x. 145, .... Note ] 

 Lambert, James, effect of lightning on a bullock, xiv. 90 

 Lamps, a newly invented lamp, ii. 498, Beyle 



— sepulchral lamps of the ancients, iii. 100 Plott 



— an invention for preserving the wick, iv. 321, . . St. Clair 



— superiority of Argand's to the common sort, xvii. 370 ; 



to candles, 371 

 Lana, F., on a burning-glass melting iron sooner than gold, 

 i. 672 ; a chemical experiment, ibid 



— on crystals exhaled from the ground, i. 720 



— of a flying ship, ii. 478 



Lancisi, John Maria, biographical account of, iv. 151, Note 



— account of the death and dissection of Malpighi, ibid 



— remarks on Vieussen's experiments on blood, iv. 503 

 Land, see Manure. 



Land-carriage, see Carriage. 



Landaff, Bishop of, see Watson, Rich. D. D. 



Lande, Jerome de la, see Lalande. 



Landen, John, biographical account of, x. 469, Note 



— properties of the circle, ibid 



— on the sums of certain series, xi. 441 



— new method of comparing curved areas, xii. 544 



— new theorems for areas of curves, xiii. 77 



— disquisition on certain fluents, xiii. 150 



— theorem of the hyperbolic arc, xiii. 647 



— new theory of rotatory motion, xiv. 144 



— on rotatory motion, xv. 703 



Landerbeck, Nich., on finding curve lines, xv. 456, 627 

 Lane, Thos., a new electrometer, xii. 475 



— solubility of iron by fixed air, xii. 633 



Langelot, Joel, M. d., on digestion, fermentation, &c. ii. 7 

 Langford, Capt., causes and prognost. of hurricanes.iv.330 

 Langrish, Browne, application of receivers to retorts, ix. 96 

 Language, origin of, ii. 308 



— connection of the Chinese and Egyptian, xii, 685 



— account of the Romansh, xiv. 7, Planta 



Languedoc, canal of, i. 418, 723 



— extraordinary swarm of locusts in, iii. 319 

 Langwith, Benj. d.d., a rainbow seen on the ground, vi. 541 



— a sort of secondary rainbow, vi. 623 



— observations on the figures of snow, vi. 64-5 



— of an aurora borealis, Oct. 1726, vii. 157 

 Lapis Calaminaris, see Calamine. 



Lark, a species from Hudson's bay, xiii. 338, .... Forster 

 Larum, (alarm) descrip. of the weaver's, ix.180, . . Arderon 

 Laryngotomy, advan. of the practice of, iv. 448,. . Musgrave 

 Latham, Rev.Eben. an improv.of the celest. globe, viii. 176 



— on the ancient sphere, viii. 501 



— position of the colure in the ancient sphere, viii. 607 

 Latham, John, earthquake at Lisbon, 1755, x. 659 



— a periodical fever, and separation of the cuticle, xiii. 78 



— remarkable case of dropsy, xiv. 481 



Latham, Wm., singular instance of atmos. refrac. xviii. 337 

 Latitude observ., of, from Java to St. Helena, vii. 552, Halley 



— inst. for taking, at any time of the day, vii. 6*73, Graham 



— a place at New York for measuring a degree of, viii. 419, 



Alexander 



— observations of at Churchill river, viii. 597, . . Middleton 



— 3 deg. of, under the merid. of Vienna, xii. 497,Liesganig 



— observations for a degree of, in Maryland and Pennsyl- 



vania, xii. 566, Mason and Dixon ; remarks intro- 

 ductory by Dr. Maskelyne, 564 



— length of a degree, deduced from the observations of 



Messrs, Mason and Dixon, xii, 573, Maskelyne 



— to find a lat. by two altitudes of the sun, xviiii 466, Lax 

 Latitude (of places) of Constantinople, iii. 255, . . Greaves 



— of Rhodes, iii. 257, Same 



Latitude (of places) some principal places in Russia, iii. 422, 



Timmermari 

 — -Pekin, iv. 233, Cassini 



— Lisbon, vii. 143, Carbone 



— Toulon, vii. 1 44, Laval 



— Vera Cruz, vii. 224, Harris 



— Aleppo, Mount Cassius, Seleucia, Antioch, Diarbekir, 



Bagdad, x. 6l8, Porter 



— of New York, viii. 420, Alexander 



— of the Cape of Good Hope, xi. 596, Mason 



— of the Jesuit's observatory, Vienna, xii. 220, . . Liesganig 



— islands of St. John and Cape Breton, xii. 507,. . Holland 



— Churchill factory, Hudson's bay, xiii. 31, Wales 



— Stamford in Lincolnshire, xiii. 131, Barker 



— King George's island, xiii. 175, Green and Cook 



— Judda and Mocha, xiii. 289, . Newland 



— Leicester, xiii. 665, Ludlam 



— Brussels and Louvain, xiv. 401, Pigott 



— Cork, xiv. 511, Longfield 



— Madras, xiv. 512, Stevens 



— York, xvi. 145, Pigott 



— the observatory, Greenwich,, xvi. 221, .... Maskelyne 

 Paris, xvi. 229, Same 



— some places near the Severn, xvi. 709, Pigott 



in Denmark, xvii. 353, Bugge 



Latterman, Jas., effects of vegetable styptics, x. 566 

 Laudanum, Van Helmont's preparation of, ii. 157, . . Boyle 



Laurel water, poisonous quality of, vii. 468, Madden 



vii. 495, .... Mortime* 



viii. 297, •• Rutty 



Lauro-cerasus, experts, on the poison of, xiv.. 66l, Fontana 

 Laval, Father, celestial observations at Toulon, vii. 144 

 Lavington, — m. d., bad effects of sea- water, as an internal 



medicine, to certain constitutions, xii. 177 

 Lawrence, Thos , m. d., effects of lightn. in Essex-st.xii.144 

 Lax, Rev. W., lat. by two altitudes of the sun, xviii. 466 

 Layard, Dan. P. m. d., fracture of the os ilium, ix. 173 



— extraordinary imposthurae in the stomach, x. 29 



— utility of inoculating for the distemper of cattle, xi. 206 



— extraordinary disease of the eye, xi. 274 



— analysis of the Somersham mineral water, xii. 275 



— nature of the distemper of horned cattle, xiv. 723 

 Lead, account of the Mendip mines, i. 186, 276, . . Glanvil 



— experiment on the cohesion of, vii. 100, .... Desaguliers. 



— account of the mines in Derbyshire, vii. 333, . . Martyn 



— case of a man who swallowed melted lead, x. 673, Spry 

 ' x. 676, Huxham 



— native lead found in Monmouthshire, xiii. 369, . . Morris 



— analysis of the molybdate of lead, xviii. 4, .... Hatchett 



— see Black-lead, Cerusse. 



Lead-ore, of a peculiar sort, in Germany, i. 6 



Learning, of the ancients and moderns, iii. 678, . . Wotton 



— state of among Greeks and Turks, 1755, x. 583, Parsons 

 Leather, manner of dressing in Turkey, ii. 62 



— see Tanning. 



Leaves, of the veins, &c. in, vii. 419, Nieholls 



Lee, Arthur, m. d., experts, on the Peruvian bark, xii. 290 

 Leech, anatomy of the, iv. 209, Poupart 



— account of the sea-leech, vii. 424, Garcin 



Leeds, John, transit of Venus, 1769, in Maryland, xii. 67 & 

 Legge, Honorable Edw., lunar eclipse, at Brasil, viii. 548 



Legion., account of the Roman, vi. 17, Musgrave 



Leibnitz, G. W.. m. d., biograph. account of, i. 6l3, Note 



— description of his portable watches, ii. 203 



— on the pursuit of philosophical studies, iv. 41 2 



— solution of his problem on curves, vi. 309, .... Taylor 

 Leigh, Charles, m. d,, biographical notice, iii. 602, ..Note 



